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PATENTED NOV. 5, 1907.

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APPLICATION FILED APR.20,1907- 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

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No. 870,126. PATBNTED NOV. 5, 1907.

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LOUIS PINNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

VENDING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. '5, 1907.

Application filed April 20, 1907. Serial No. 369375.

' machines in which the bottom article of a cross-stacked pile isreleased and ejected from the machine upon inserting a coin of apre-determined value and operating the machine. I

Among the objects in view in constructing the machine were to providemeans for feeding articles from a single, stationary cross stack; toprovide mechanism to prevent articles from being jammed in the machineand rendering it inoperative; to provide mechanism for coin lockingwhich will operate only on the insertion of a proper coin; to soconstruct the machine that it will either deliver an article or returnthe coin; to provide mechanism whereby the coin cannot be recovered ifthe machine vends an article. I attain these objects in the mannerillustrated in the accompanying drawings of a preferred embodiment of myinvention.

Figure l is a side, sectional view of my machine; Fig. 2 a detail view,partly in section, of the coin lock and return device; Fig. 3 a likeview of the automatic return device; Fig. 4 a like view of thedelivering mechanism; Fig. 5 a front view of the delivering mechanismand coin device. t

A suitable cabinet 1 is dividedinto upper and lower compartments by ashelf 2. This shelf is apertured at 3 and carries the flanged,stationary guide ring i. An apertured, ringed disk 5 is 'rotatablymounted in the guide ring 4, the aperture 6 corresponding in generalsize and shape with that of the article to be vended. This disk isprovided with the lugs 7, 7, 7, 7, projecting from its outer face.Upright guides 8, 8, 8, 8, are arranged in the upper compartment toreceive and retain a cross-stacked pile of articles to be vended. Theupper face of the rotatable disk is provided with a channel 9 into whichthe lower ends of the guides 8, 8, 8, 8, or

extensions thereof, project. The lower compartment is provided with adelivery chute 11 through which the vended articles are conveyed to thevendee.

To effect the rotation of the disk, coin locked mechanism is employed.This consists of the segment 12 mounted slidingly on the guide ring4 andprovided with an operating lever 13 projecting thr'ough a slot in thecabinet. A spring 14 is provided to return the lever to its initialposition after each operation of the machine.

The coin carrier 15 comprises a chambered piece open attop and bottom.As shown in Fig. 2 the chamber normally alines with a coin chute 16 andthe coin, when in the chamber, bears on the flange on the guide ring,the upper part being in position-to engage a lug on the rotatable diskto move same when the lever is pushed. When the lever has reached itsextreme limit of movement the coin is over an aperture 17 in 'the shelf2 and a cut out portion of-the flange so that,

being unsupported on the bottom, it falls into a money box. The leverstriking the end of the slot or other stop comes to a standstill whilethe momentum of the rotatable disk causes it to slightly overrun thecoin block releasing the side pressure on the coin and jarring it downinto the money box if it has any tendency to stick. A second aperture 18under the end of the chute 16 permits coins which miss the chamber tofall into the delivery chute for return to the vendee.

The operation of the machine is as follows :A crossstacked pile ofarticles to be vended is placed in the upright guides, resting onthe'apertured plate or disk. A coin of predetermined value is placed'inthe coin chute and enters the chamber on the block. The lever is thenpushed and the upper part of the coin engages a lug on the rotatabledisk moving it. As the apso I ridden along the flange on the guide ringuntil it has reached the cut out part over the money box opening when itfalls through the chamber and into the box. The spring on the leversegment thereupon returns the lever and coin chamber to initial positionwhen the operation can be repeated on the insertion of a fresh coin.

If for any reason the coin chamberdoes not aline with the end of thecoin chute, or the coin should miss the chamber it will fall through thereturn opening into the delivery chute and be returned to the vendee. Asthe bottoms of the guides extend into the channel in the rotatable disk,and are therefore well beldw the bottom ing a disk provided with aplurality of apertures near its edge and dispenses with a rotatingstack, substituting a single, stationary stack and a rotatable diskhaving' a single aperture. This construction is cheaper and moreefiicient and can be contained in a much smaller cabinet.

1. In a vending machine the combination of a rotatable, apertured diskchanneled on its upper face; guides thereover adapted to contain a crossstacked pile of articles to be .vended and extending into the channelsin the disk;

and means for rotating the disk to release the bottom article.

2. In a vending machine the combination of a guide ring; an apertured,rotatable disk therein having a channel in its upper face; guidesthereover adapted to contain a cross stacked pile of articles to bevended and extending into the channel in the disk; and means forrotating the disk to release the bottom article.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presenceof-two attesting witnesses.

, vLoU'Is PINNER.

Witnesses:

ADRIAN HITT; HARRY A. BLOOMBERG.

